Stories Short Story Short Trips 2: More Short Trips Story: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Moon Graffiti Audiobook Short Story Audiobook Short Story 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Related Stories Quotes Overview Released March 1999 Written by Dave Stone Pages 33 Time Travel Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Sixth Doctor Peri Brown Pararachnids Show All Characters (3) How to read Moon Graffiti: Books More Short Trips Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 28 April 2025 · 271 words Review by Newt5996 Dave Stone is a writer I’m always very mixed on and “Moon Graffiti” is just a Dave Stone story that doesn’t work for me. Now, before I go into detail, this is one that may work well for someone who is a Dave Stone fan, it has all the hallmarks of his work. The prose is incredibly dense and the ideas surrounding it are largely in the absurd, though the short story format feels incredibly limiting for an author who even in novel format feels limited. It’s also very possible that this story works better when performed by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as it was originally released about six months before the publication of More Short Trips in the audio anthology Out of the Darkness. The concept is just as absurd as you’d expect from stone, the setting is a desolate Earth in the far future and the Sixth Doctor and Peri have to fight off the Pararachnid alien threat, with several supporting characters along the way while there is another group of aliens stranded on Earth called the Wibliwee, plus a third group called the Monitors. Again this is too convoluted for a short story, even with Stone making the story one of the longer ones, but so much of it feels like it’s mean to be read by Baker and Bryant. Reading it makes it quite difficult to take in everything that is being said, but I can easily imagine hearing it makes it feel more like you’re listening to an audio drama or being told an actual story, it just didn’t work for me in this format. 4/10. Newt5996 View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating19 members 2.84 / 5 Member Statistics Read 28 Favourited 1 Reviewed 1 Saved 0 Skipped 0 Related Stories Virgin New Adventures The Mary-Sue Extrusion Rating: 3.16 Story Skipped Book Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Virgin Books Set of Stories: Virgin New Adventures Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Other variations of this story We define a variation as another way of experiencing the exact same story - like an autiobook, a reconstruction or an omnibus edition. Out of the Darkness Moon Graffiti Rating: 2.89 Story Skipped Audio Book More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Tales from the TARDIS (2004) Set of Stories: Out of the Darkness Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote